Improvement in cinder-washers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.Ina/[Esv M. MEsoHUTr, 0E NEW vonk, N. Y. I

EMVPPLOVEM ENT lN CINDER-WASHEPLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4I ,52, dated March 8, 1364; antedated February 20, 1864.`

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, JAMES M. MEsoHUT'r,

clear, and exact description of my said inven-V tion, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification,

wherein I have represented a vertical section of my said invention as in use.

Uinders have heretofore been sifted in order to separate the ashes from the coal. This operation is laborious and produces a large amount of dust, and docs not thoroughly clean the'ashes from the coal, besides which accidents often occur from heated cinders in cinder-s'ifters and ash-receptacles.

The nature of my said inventionconsists in a revolving` or oscillating screen or bucket, moving on a center in a pail or other receptacle for water, whereby the ashes are quickly separated from the coals by the buoyant action ofthe water on the coals,loosening the mass so that the water can penetrate easily, and by aid of the motion given to the bucket Wash away and entirely remove the ashes from the coals` rendering them clean and avoiding all risk from smoldering embers. By my cinder washer much more coal is saved, because the agitation required is so little that the cinders are not ground and broken up, as heretofore.

In the drawing, a is a pail or othersuitable in the bucket a, the conc e resting on the point b, the attendant gives the saidv buckets several rotations or oscillations, which .thoroughly wash out and remove the ashes, because the coals lie loosely in the bucket, and the said coals are quickly cleaned by the action of the water and a slight rotation or oscillation.

Dust and risk of fire are prevented by my apparatus, and much labor is avoided.v My apparat-us is cheap, easily made, and'portable.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent, is v The rotary or oscillating bucket or ashre ceptacle c, sustained by and moved on the center-pin b, in a pail or water-receptacle for washing cinders, as set forth.

`In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 4th day of August, 1863.

- J. M. MESGHUTT.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SEREELL, 01ans. H. SMITH. 

